"You know, I was an avid skateboarder as a kid." "I had a big half-pipe in my backyard and that's what kind of drew me to snowboarding initially.

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And the answer has to do with ratios and string sizes and lengths of pipe and things like that, but generally speaking, pitches that are right next to each other--very close to each other--are dissonant.

答案和比率以及弦乐器的尺寸和管乐器的长度等有关，但是总的说来，音调是相关联的，非常近。

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What that is, is an organ pipe of the type of organ that we have over in Woolsey Hall, thirty-two feet tall, this gigantic sound of down there so that's what he's trying to set up.

这是一种管风琴,梧希音乐厅就有,三十二英尺高,巨大浑厚的低音,正是施特劳斯努力展现的

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